trotter

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who trots.

   • Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
   • ... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]
2. 2

   In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides…

   In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.

3. 3

   The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.

   • grange cookbook recipes for trotters
   • Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
   • In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
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   1. 4

      A person's foot.

      • Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
   2. 5

      A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.

      • One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.
   3. 6

      A surname.

   4. 7

      someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

   5. 8

      A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

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